I've been talking to a lot of folks in the Philippines.

-A water heater issue resulted in repeated mismanagement—confusing unit assignments—leading to extra costs to fix the same issue 3 times and on each occasion "more fixes" needed to the water heaters that I plumber said was needed.

At this stage you're probably better off investing that extra money into your primary business activity.What part of CA are you in?

Hey good folks of BP. 

The only reason I chimed in is a lot of folks might take this as gospel for any and all areas.

A follow up question I now have would be do you think its smarter to completely pay off the first property before buying a new property or to keep going out and buying new properties once i have enough saved up for the down payment along with extra fees?

To get around this some folks will purchase the vehicle in an LLC and then sell the LLC, and this is not breaking the agreement.The same thing would apply here.

Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

good story.. there are so many examples of folks buying worthless land at tax sales.or bidding on seconds at foreclosure sales and thinking it was the first or wiped out the first..

When you do a little extra work ahead of time, the process goes so much more smoothly.